Document identification may seem like a no-brainer - just give each document a unique number, right? But because documents have multiple versions, because some versions develop in parallel, because documents disappear, because documents are composed of multiple parts, and because the document presented may be only a representation of a document stored, document identification becomes tricky. This paper is a good survey of the issues and proposes that something like DOI be adopted. PDF.
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